The Establishment of Modern English Prose in the Reformation and the Enlightenment (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521480888)

Ian Robinson traces the legacy of prose writing as a form theorized and propagated as an art distinct from verse. Engaging with histories of rhetoric as well as the work of the great prose writers in English, Robinson provides a bold reappraisal of this literary form, and shows that the formal construct of the sentence itself is historically conditioned and no older than the post-medieval world. The relationship between rhetorical style and literary meaning, Robinson argues, is at the heart of the way we understand the external world.

Author: Ian Robinson
ISBN-10: 0521480884
ISBN-13: 9780521480888
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/28/1999
Pages: 236
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 9.16h x 5.94w x 0.69d